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2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
אליפות אירופה בכדורגל עד גיל 21 - 2013
Tournament details
Host country	; Israel;
Dates	5–18 June
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	; Spain (4th title);
Runners-up	; Italy;
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	45 (3 per match)
Attendance	180,432 (12,029 per match)
Top scorer(s)	; Álvaro Morata (4 goals);
Best player(s)	; Thiago;
	; ← 2011 ; ; 2015 → ;

2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship was the 19th staging of UEFA's European Under-21 Championship. The final tournament was hosted by Israel between the 5–18 June 2013.

The Israeli bid was chosen by UEFA's Executive Committee on 27 January 2011 in Nyon, Switzerland.^[2] This bid defeated the other bids from Bulgaria, Czech Republic, England and Wales.

Spain defended the title they won two years prior, winning their fourth title after defeating Italy 4–2 in the final.

Qualification

The draw for the group stage of qualifying for the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship took place on 3 February in Nyon, Switzerland. 52 national teams took part in the qualifying. The group stage of qualifying began on 25 March 2011.^[3]
There were a total of ten groups, consisting of five or six teams each. All the teams in each group faced each other two times, at home and away. The team at the top of each group and the four best second-placed teams qualified to the playoff round. In the playoff round, the 14 teams were drawn to play seven two-legged matches. The winners joined Israel in the tournament finals.

List of qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the 2013 UEFA European Under-21 Championship:

England

Germany

Israel (hosts)

Italy

Netherlands

Norway

Russia

Spain

Venues

The Competition was played at four venues, Bloomfield (Tel Aviv), Teddy (Jerusalem), HaMoshava (Petah Tikva) and Netanya Municipal Stadium.

Jerusalem	Jerusalem Netanya Petah Tikva Tel Aviv	Netanya
Teddy Stadium		Netanya Stadium
Capacity: 31,733		Capacity: 13,610

Petah Tikva		Tel Aviv
HaMoshava Stadium		Bloomfield Stadium
Capacity: 11,500		Capacity: 14,413

Match officials

In December 2012, it was announced that these six referees would take charge of matches at the final tournament:

Ivan Bebek (Croatia)

Serhiy Boiko (Ukraine)

Antony Gautier (France)

Paweł Gil (Poland)

Ovidiu Haţegan (Romania)

Matej Jug (Slovenia)

It was furthermore announced that additional assistant referees would be deployed at Israel's final tournament.^[4]

Seeding

The draw for the final tournament took place on 28 November 2012 in Tel Aviv. As the highest-ranked team according to the competition coefficient rankings, Spain are one of the top two seeds alongside hosts Israel. Those two sides will be drawn into separate groups, as will the second and third-ranked teams in the list, England and the Netherlands. The remaining four countries are unseeded and will be placed in the remaining positions in the two four-team sections.^[5]^[6]

Top seeds	Second seeds	Unseeded
Israel (assigned to A1) Spain (assigned to B1)	England Netherlands	Italy Germany Russia Norway

Squads

The deadline for the submission of the final 23-man squads was ten days before the opening match: Sunday 26 May 2013.

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 28 November 2012 in Tel Aviv.^[7]

All times are local (UTC+3).

Group A


Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Italy	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7
Norway	3	1	2	0	6	4	+2	5
Israel	3	1	1	1	3	6	−3	4
England	3	0	0	3	1	5	−4	0

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5 June 2013

19:00

Israel	2–2	Norway
Biton 16' (pen.) Turgeman 71'	Report	Pedersen 24' Singh 90+2'

Netanya Stadium, Netanya

Attendance: 10,850

Referee: Paweł Gil (Poland)

5 June 2013